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Flu vaccine for all UK kids
All UK children are to be given the flu vaccination after experts said it could save up to 2,000 lives […]
Continue readingNZ research included in meningococcal B universal vaccine
The MeNZB vaccine developed to control New Zealand’s meningococcal B epidemic in 2004-5 has helped researchers to create another, more […]
Continue readingNational Immunisation Week
New Zealand’s immunisation program has drastically reduced the prevalence of many potentially life-threatening communicable diseases, but it wont rest on […]
Continue readingExploring science and the irrational
Why do some people staunchly maintain their beliefs in the face of irrefutable evidence to the contrary? Journalist Chris Mooney […]
Continue readingRadioLive: Janine Duckworth on the ‘pill’ for possums
RadioLive EnviroNews: Graeme Hill interviews Janine Duckworth, Landcare Research’s pest control specialist, on a new vaccine that might control the […]
Continue readingODT/NZPA: NZ research targets lungs for hookworm immunity
Researchers at the Malaghan Institute (Wellington) have made a discovery which could hasten the development of a vaccine for hookworm. […]
Continue reading3 News/RadioLIVE: Swine flu cases on the increase
With flu cases on the increase nationally, authorities are warning that there are only a small number of vaccines left. […]
Continue readingNZ Herald: Hospitals packed as flu hits
Elizabeth Binning writes in the New Zealand Herald about the spike in cold and flu cases in Auckland, despite what […]
Continue readingRadio NZ: Breast cancer vaccine tests successful on mice
US researchers have, they say, successfully trialed a breast cancer vaccine which stopped 100% of breast cancers developing or growing […]
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